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Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange Market, as Wall Street suffers through another extraordinary and traumatic session Monday, following the sharp drop of the Asian markets. The Dow Jones industrials plunged as much as 800 points -- their largest one-day point drop -- before recovering to close with a loss of 370, resulting in the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, despite the US and other states’ government efforts to contain the fast-spreading financial crisis. New York, Oct 06 2008.